They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.
I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
What does it mean to have a mayor who has an organizing background? It means I have allies and partners on whom I can call for advice - and that are also holding my feet to the fire already.
I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.
The one thing politicians will always vote for is more politics, so in 2000 they invented the post of mayor of London without ever really thinking what it was a mayor would do.
I'll be the mayor of all the people.
Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.
Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures.
I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
Part of me would love to be mayor for the simple reason that I love my city.
New York has done an excellent job. And I give credit - I give credit across the board going back two mayors, two police chiefs, because it has worked. And other communities need to come together to do what will work, as well.
